Seth Godin Quotes
Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.'
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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My shows and my material are grounded in reality. It's pretty much something that's either happened in my life or in the news, and I start there and give you my take on it.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.
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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
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It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.
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'Alice' is effectively a story about a game of cards. 'Through the Looking Glass' is a story of chess.
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Every mother wishes the best for her children.
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My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef.
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The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.
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Turn strangers into friends. Turn friends into donors. And then do the most important job: Turn your donors into fundraisers.
